Monday, November 26, 2018

Experience with growing chillies

We had two aussie chillie plants (may be thai), they took time to grow, all our plants were planted in early september, i think 2nd week as that's when we finished our landscaping and I paid half the amount from my prev. company's final pay.
The plants started bearing chillies in early Nov, so around two months.
My indian chillie plant initially looked like its not growing, but after days one flower came and then one chillie.

Pests: none dared to touch so I am happy, not even slugs, caterpillars, aphids.

Watering: they dont need a lot of water, i made a mistake initially by watering daily and that impacted a lot of plants, now i am watering once in two days, i think once in 3 days should be fine as i got sugarcane mulch around all my veggies.

Location: two of the plants are in the southern side, they get plenty of sunlight, one which is next to strawberry plant is producing a lot of chillies, yhe other which is next to beens just started.
And the other plant on the west of the house gets sunlight only in the afternoon, may be that's why the indian chillie is growing slowly with only one chillie at yhe moment which i plucked and used yesterday.

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